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- .. C: Macintosh Update Macintosh has changed a little since the enclosed manuals were printed. This manual update lets you know about improvements to the Finder and MacWrite. It also describes a new Font and Desk Accessory Mover and the Choose Printer desk accessory that are now included on the System Disk. You can put this update aside for now; you don't really need to know about the changes it describes until you've been working with Macintosh for a while. Most of the changes just give you more speed and power in using your Macintosh. • See Macintosh, your owner's guide, to find out how Macintosh works in general. • See the MacPaint and MacWrite manuals to find out how those applications work. • You can also take a guided tour or two, to let the Macintosh demonstrate itself. Updating Other Disks Each enclosed disk includes the new Finder and other system changes; other applications you purchase may not You might want to update each of your startup disks with the new Finder and other system changes. To update applications such as MacProject, MacDraw, or MacTerminal, replace their System Folders by copying the System Folder from the enclosed System Disk. See "Copying a Document, Folder, or Application to a Different Disk" in Macintosh, the owner's guide. Here are a few guid��ines about updating other disks: . • Before you replace a disk's System Folder, make a backup copy of the disk. See "Copying an Entire Disk" in Macintosh, the owner's guide. • Start up your Macintosh using one of the enclosed disks rather than thedisk whose System Folder you want to replace; you can't replace the System Folder of the current startup disk. • Make sure the System Folder you want to replace (and the files within it) aren't locked. You can check this by selecting each file and choosing Get Info. • If you have an external hard disk, replace the System Folder on the hard disk only, not on any other special disk you use with the hard disk to start your Macintosh. When you replace a disk's System Folder, you lose any special fonts originally provided in that disk's System file. You can preserve existing fonts or desk accessories by using the Font/Desk Accessory Mover to move them from the disk's System file to a special font file and back again. See "About the Font/Desk Accessory Mover" in this update. 032-0017-A 1 .. ,, About the New Finder The Finder is the application you use to manage your Macintosh desktop. The new Finder (version 4.1) is faster than the old version and it works better with hard disks. It also has some added features such as the MiniFinder, which lets you move quickly among the applications and documents you use most often. The new Finder works with any existing applications and documents without your having to make any changes to them. Full Capabilities in Any View With the old Finder you could duplicate, move, rename, or discard documents, folders, and applications only when directory windows were arranged by icon. With the new Finder you can do any of your desktop work with your directories in any arrangement-by icon, name, date, size, or kind. In any of the text views (any view other than by icon), a small icon appears to the left of the document name. Click, double-click, drag, or Shift-click this icon just as you would its counterpart in an icon view of the directory. To rename a document when a directory isn't arranged by icon, select the name and edit it just as you edit icon names in an icon view or on the desktop. Directories in text views also indicate (with a small padlock on the right) which of your documents are locked. If you lock a folder or if you physically lock the disk, the padlock appears in the top left comer just below the title bar. File Edit Uiew Special ..·· ..·:. Update Size Kind Last Modified � 30K document Mon1 Apr 81 1985 Font/DA Mover 25K application Mon1 Apr 81 1 985 Cl Fonts 9K Font/D A Mover do... Mon1 Apr 81 1985 .... 0 System Folder 166K folder Mon1 Apr 81 1985 Cl System Update 99K application Mon1 Apr 81 1985 032-0017-A 2 Dragging Icons In the past, you couldn't drag an icon to a "hollow" icon; you had to drag to the icon's directory window. Now you can drag an icon either to a directory window or to the hollow icon that remains behind when you open an icon. If you drag to a directory window, you can place the icon wherever you want it; if you drag to a hollow icon, the Finder will place it in the next available spot. Update Gil � Font /D A Mover Screen 0 () Clipboard File () Disk Copy 6K 69K Naming Icons In the past, typing renamed any selected icon, whether you had explicitly clicked it or not. Now you click explicitly on an icon or icon name to edit its name, even if the icon is already selected. This means you're less likely to rename disks accidentally. There are a couple of exceptions: When you create a new folder by choosing New Folder, or when you duplicate or move a document, folder, or application, typing renames what's selected, without your having to click it first. (This is true in text views as well.) If you give an icon a name that's the same as an icon you just dragged to the Trash, the Trash is automatically emptied, so you can use the name again. Ejecting Disks Now choosing Eject always ejects a disk (if one's inserted and it isn't a hard disk), even if none is selected. The Finder looks for any inserted disk to eject. Choosing Eject again ejects any other inserted disk. If you want your Macintosh to forget about a disk (and not ask for it again), drag the disk to the Trash. This doesn't erase the disk; it just ejects it and removes the icon from the desktop. 032-0017-A 3 " You can't drag the current startup disk to the Trash. You can't edit an ejected disk's comment box (in the Get Info window) or that of any of the documents on that disk. The • Menu Choose Printer Scrapbook Alarm Clock Note Pad Calculator Key Caps Control Panel Puzzle The About the Finder Command The About the Finder command in the Apple menu now tells you the memory size of the Macintosh you're using. (Memory used for MacWorks is subtracted on a Macintosh XL.) The Choose Printer Desk Accessory The Choose Printer Desk Accessory is available in theApple menu both in the Finder and in any application you start using an updated startup disk. See "About the Choose Printer Desk Accessory" on page 8. 032-0017-A 4 The File Menu XN OIH�n Print Close t;,•� t J n to :•: I ouplit:d1 <� :•:n Page Setup Print Catalog Eject XE The New Folder Command There's a new command -New Folder-in the File menu. Choosing this command creates a new folder (so you no longer have to duplicate an existing folder). You can rename the folder immediately after you create it, by typing the name you want. Rename it any other time by selecting the name or icon and editing it in the usual way. New folders appear in the frontmost window on the desktop. The command is dimmed if no windows are open. Ifyou worked throughthe tutorial in Chapter 1 of Macintosh, the owner's guide, note that we've put an empty folder on the enclosed disks for you to duplicate as the tutorial describes. But with the new Finder, just choose New Folder when you want an empty folder. The Page Setup Command The Page Setup command lets you set up the orientation and size of directories you print using the Print Catalog command. In the Finder, this command works only with the Print Catalog command; a document's page setup is controlled by the Page Setup command in the application. The Print Catalog Command There's a new Print Catalog command in the File menu that prints the contents of the active directory window-in whatever view you have the directory arranged. Note that Close All and Put Back have been removed from the File menu. 032-0017-A 5 The Special Menu Clean Up E:mptl.t "frnsh [rns<� m�k s •� t S 1 <l r1 up Use Minifinder ... Shut Down The Use MiniFinder Command To move quickly between applications, you can now place the applications and documents you use most often in the MiniFinder. Here's how to use the MiniFinder: • In the Finder, select what you want to place in the MiniFinder. You can select up to a total of twelve mixed or matched documents and applications. You might, for example, select the applications you use most often, the documents you're currently working on, or both. (You can easily change what's in the MiniFinder whenever you want.) The documents and/or applications you select must all be in the same directory window. Drag them there before you select them if necessary. Any applications you need to work on your MiniFinder documents must be on the same disk as the documents. You can move between disks in the MiniFinder. • Choose Use MiniFinder from the Special menu. • Click Install. The next time you start your Macintosh using this disk or quit an application on this disk, the MiniFinder will appear instead of the usual desktop.